Phew! What a whirlwind of a wonderful weekend! We were at the (gorgeous) Cyclorama building for the first Boston Renegade Craft Fair, representing Taproot. We talked to so many lovely people and met so many great makers and loved their wares (and of course came home with a few goodies too!). Thanks to those of you who came to say hello.
This trip had a particularly fun twist as my sister Katie, who joined the Taproot team last year as our Marketing Manager, was along for the adventure. She, having a corporate background, got a full taste of the life of small business work which entails (in my experience) a lot of lugging things up and down stairs (magazines are heavy), double parking on city streets and sweet talking security into letting us take one more load in before moving the car, and other really glamorous things like that. Glamour, I tell you! But she was still with me at the end of the weekend, so I think we're okay! It's been such fun working with her - we laugh now about how different we were as children, how we drove each other completely mad (it's true). No one then would have possibly guessed that of the four sisters, the two of us would be paired in anything at all. And here we are all these years later choosing to work together and enjoying it. We talk - one way or another - several times a day, about our children, life, and work (she knows me so well, she's got that special sisterly way of knowing just how and what to say to get my attention and make things happen).
As always, it's a good reminder as I look at my own children, and remember that these sibling relationships will undoubtedly grow and change and evolve over the many, many years they will have together. What a delight to think about what could be in their future together, and what adventures they might have and what they might create together. Yes, yes...that's precisely what I'll think about next time a fight breaks out over who took the last popsicle. I'll imagine those two climbing a mountain together on a backpacking adventure when they're thirty. Or I'll imagine them at their own trade show of some kind, launching a creation they've dreamed up together. Yes, that's just what I'll do!
